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Originally Posted by HarryT
Nobody is suggesting that copyright infringement should be punished by "several decades in jail" - please don't put words into peoples' mouths.
The issue is not the scale of punishments for copyright infringement, but the fact that the entire legal process is beyond the reach of all but the largest companies, and so unwieldy that it's effectively unenforcible. I don't know the details of what this BREIN group is proposing, but something really does need to be done to allow small content producers to take advantage of the protection that the law claims to offer them, but in reality doesn't.
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I wasn't putting words in peoples mouths HarryT. Just making the point that some things are criminal and some things are civil and it's not likely that something like this which is civil in nature will be reclassified as criminal any time soon. At one time being a thief could get you executed if Dickens portrayal of some of his characters is accurate. And if someone tried to get a stronger penalty for copyright infringement passed into law I imagine there would be an uproar about it. Not to mention jails are already overcrowded because of how many people are sent to prison for various non-violent crimes. I'm not a lawyer, but I can't imagine many people wanting to add to that problem by changing something that is considered civil to something criminal in nature.